TY  - UNPD
A1  - Benney, Jonathan
T1  - Stability maintenance at the grassroots: China’s weiwen apparatus as a form of conflict resolution
T2  - LOEWE-Schwerpunkt "Außergerichtliche und gerichtliche Konfliktlösung" : Arbeitspapier = LOEWE research focus "Extrajudicial and judicial conflict resolution" : working paper ; 8
N2  - This working paper explores the history and potential of “stability maintenance” (weiwen) as a form of conflict resolution in China. Its emphasis on conflict resolution is novel. Previous examinations of the weiwen apparatus have concentrated on its political function, namely to manage resistance within society and maintain the authority of the party-state. This avenue of investigation has proved fruitful as a means of characterising the political motivation and the higher-level strategies involved in stability maintenance. Nonetheless, there remain significant conceptual and empirical gaps relating to how stability maintenance offices and processes actually function, particularly out of larger cities and at local levels. The research described in this paper aims to consider the effectiveness of stability maintenance as a part of the “market” for conflict resolution in local China, and to test the hypothesis that conflict resolution as facilitated by weiwen is the most pragmatic and effective means of actually resolving conflicts in the current Chinese political context, notwithstanding the closeness of the stability maintenance discourse to state authority and its relative distance from rule of law-based methods of dispute resolution...
T3  - LOEWE-Schwerpunkt "Außergerichtliche und gerichtliche Konfliktlösung" : Arbeitspapier = LOEWE research focus "Extrajudicial and judicial conflict resolution" : working paper - 8 
KW  - Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
KW  - Amtsgerichte
KW  - Büros für Wirtschafts-und Handelsbeziehungen
KW  - Ausschüsse für Politik und Recht
KW  - Boards für Stadt-Entwicklung
KW  - Büros für Wohnungsbau
KW  - China
KW  - Debatten
KW  - Dorfkomitees
KW  - fragmentierter Autoritarismus
KW  - Gerichte
KW  - Gerichtsverfahren
KW  - Gesellschaft
KW  - Informalität der Verhandlungen
KW  - Konfliktlösung
KW  - lokale Ämter für Öffentliche Sicherheit
KW  - lokale Regierungen
KW  - Petitionen
KW  - Sinologie
KW  - Stabilität
KW  - Vergütung
KW  - Vermittlung
KW  - Parteistaat
KW  - weiwen
KW  - alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
KW  - China
KW  - Chinese studies
KW  - city development boards
KW  - compensation
KW  - conflict resolution
KW  - court cases
KW  - courts
KW  - district courts
KW  - economic and trade bureaus
KW  - fragmented authoritarianism
KW  - housing construction bureaus
KW  - Informality of negotiation
KW  - judicial offices
KW  - local government
KW  - local Public Security Bureaus
KW  - mediation
KW  - party-state
KW  - petitioning cases
KW  - Policy debates
KW  - Politics and Law Committees
KW  - society
KW  - stability
KW  - village committees
KW  - weiwen
Y1  - 2013
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/32100
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-321005
SP  - 1
EP  - 28
PB  - Max-Planck-Inst. für europäische Rechtsgeschichte
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -